The service provided by the postman in the last century often went to great lengths. For instance, a while ago I came across a piece of mail that illustrated this well. It concerns a letter sent in 1923 to Mrs. Nellie van Kol from...
Holidays such as Good Friday, Easter, King's Day, Liberation Day, and Ascension Day are just around the corner. These holidays also affect postal delivery times. Here you will find an overview of the changes. Letterbox mail Consumer Adjusted delivery and...
The philatelist in the Netherlands is primarily concerned with PostNL stamps. However, 'variants of interest' can be distinguished within this collection, for which a small number of collectors are currently showing interest. This concerns the stamp issues of alternative postal carriers, which as...
Around the holidays, many more packages and letters are sent than usual. Peak demand is expected, especially for parcel delivery, as people are ordering online en masse again. For this reason, PostNL has created an overview of the expected...
PostNL recently published an overview of the adjusted drop-off and delivery times around the spring holidays. This information can be found here. View the changes to the mail delivery and drop-off schedule around the holidays here...
PostNL recently published an overview of the adjusted drop-off and delivery times around the autumn holidays. This information can be found here. Letterbox mail View the changes to the drop-off and delivery schedule for mail delivery around the holidays here...
PostNL has launched a trial for parcel and letter vending machines in Almere. The machine is suitable for sending and receiving parcels and simultaneously serves as a mailbox. With this trial, PostNL aims to investigate whether this machine actually meets...
Those were the days. The postman who came by up to seven times a day in big cities to deliver the mail. Even on Sundays, mail deliveries were quite normal back then. But more and more people were having trouble...
Correos de México (formerly Servicio Postal Mexicano (Sepomex)) is the national postal service of Mexico. A historical look back: on February 17, 1907, the President of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, founded the "Palacio Postal" (Post Palace), also known as the "Quinta Casa de...
This title is the result of a reaction from Dolores to an earlier bicycle-latelist article of mine (November 17, 2010) on Postzegelblog. She asked me whether it is, after all, primarily men and men's events that appear on the bicycle stamps. She found...
Over the past two weeks, parts 1 and 2 were published. Today, the third and final part of: Mail Delivery by Bicycle. A bicycle-latelic wandering through various countries of the world. The bicycle is here to stay in daily life...
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